The Edge Arvos Podcast - FULL POD #96: Imagine getting hit by a car after your first kiss.. It happened! 😮

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

It’s been a wild Wednesday! EZ Money  What weird thing did you believe when you were young? Sean stuffed up at his first workout class Dating & keeping it in the family... Steph answers everyone's biggest NZ IKEA question! Degrees of Stan Walker Love Island kissing is craaaaazy Crazy first kiss stories 5 star fact Sean’s painful mall massage Top 3 Lab grown salmon Love ya! Sean, Steph & Harrison x Follow our new insta @edgearvos

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Really good invention. But today's podcast at least, same, same really, same as everyone else. But good, some good moments. Enjoy. Your Arvos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. Welcome to the show. It is The Edge Afternoons. Sean, Stefan Harrison, no Harrison today.

He is very, very busy at his other job. He's shooting his TV show Ahikarro. And he's got just a maybe like a few days left of filming her and then he's done to the season. Yeah, I'm excited to watch it. I can't believe he does two jobs. Oh, God. He's a busy man.

And you know what? He's left his recorder in the studio. So, how about this, Sean? A live ony brainstorm with you. Every single person that gets on the air on 0800 the edge, this afternoon gets a song from me. Oh, God. I'm actually mean.

You're actually quite good. You can play the Lord of the Rings one. Don't play it now. Don't need to play it now, but save it. How about our easy money contestant can have that one, because every caller wins. A song for me. And that is happening next.

Easy Money. $1,000 up for grabs if you do win. But even if you don't, BNZ, if it goes up with 100 bucks to give you. So, 0,800 the edge. Give us a call. Play easy money next. Your Arvos, Hit Harder.

With Sean, Steph and Harry. The Edge. And your chance to win a thousand bucks right now with Easy Money. Easy Money. We'll give you a letter between E and Z. 30 seconds on the clock, 10 questions. Answer each one with a word of that letter.

Win yourself a thousand bucks. And just for playing, BNZ have sponsored Easy Money and they're going to give you $100 cash just for playing so you can kickstart your money goals. BNZ believes there's an art to starting something new. And like any art form, you need the right tools to make it work. Thanks, BNZ. Thanks. All right, let's play with you, Todd from Christchurch.

Kiyoda. How you guys going? Now, this is going to be a real hybrid of EJava's content right now because not only do we do this every day, easy money, but also we have a different segment called Five Star Fact. Where Sean, you give the country a fact. And your judging panel, Harrison, myself, Stefan, and Turn a Little Lou. We mark it.

And we rate it out of five stars. Todd, now you have a five-star fact suggestion that you want to give to Sean right now before we get going. I sure do, yeah. Do you want to hear it? Yes, Todd, please. I take all the help I can get. You'd be surprised how many DMs I get every day with people suggesting five-star facts, and please keep sending them. I've tried a lot of them.

And the feet-ones too. He loves getting the feet-picks. Feet-picks as well. Feet-picks facts are the two things, the two Fs. Sorry, Tom. Hit me. My fun fact is more castles in Germany than there is McDonald's in America. There's more castles in Germany

than there are McDonald's in America. It's a pretty good fact. He's fact checking you, Todd. He's doing a little Google search. Is it true? Yeah, that seems legit. Oh, wow. You reckon you'll use that one, Sean?

Well, you know, soundscape is part of it, so maybe I'd go, hey, there's more Maccas in the USA than there are in Germany. So that's maybe what I would have done, Todd, but the fact itself, very good fact. Very good fact.

Unfortunately, Steph's heard it now, so she will judge me down on originality. Originality will be low, so automatically it's never going to get a fine. Damn it. But Todd, that's fine. Let's get down to business, because we would love to give you $1,000 right now with EZ money. Todd, your letter will be O. O for, oh, wow. O for awesome?

No, won't you take that. O for orangutangang tang. would take. Okay. Sounds good. All right, 30 seconds. Todd, that is the time limit. I will hopefully get to ask you

10 different categories. Please answer each 10 categories with the word starting with the letter O. You can pass and hopefully we'll have time to get to the category that you miss. No repeated answers. Sean's going to be listening up for that today since Harrison's away, our

judge. And your time will begin when I finish saying the first category Todd from Christchurch. with the letter O, please name for us. Something invisible. Oxygen. Emotion. Outrage.

A word related to money. Overdraft. A song title. Fast. A Star Wars character. Obi-Wan Kenobi. Something found in nature. Pass.

A food. oranges. A job. Time. Time there. A food beginning. There's one, two, three. We are giving you five for that one today.

Todd, not bad. Shot Todd. It's a lot harder than it seems. All right, everyone, it's so hard when you're playing on the phone. That's why, you know... I thought I was nailing it, too. You were doing well. Just probably a little bit quicker.

The song title you passed could have on Ocean Eyes, Billy. Only Girl in the World, one dance. Anything was one, really? A lot of songs was one. Yeah, true. One little thing. You passed on something found in nature. That's a hard one.

Ocean, oak tree. Yeah, another trick. Opium. Oh. Technically. Sorry, Todd. Hey, you still walk away with a hundred bucks, so not too shabby, eh? Great job.

Awesome. Thanks love for that. Shot Todd, shot Todd. Right, coming up next from the show, a memory was unlocked to me for me today. After something that I believed in as a kid, I used to think someone was my dad on TV. Well, not my dad. And anyway, I'll tell you the full story next. What? You thought someone on TV was your dad?

Yeah, convinced. It's a lot to unpack. Yeah, I know. Your Arvos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. So my baby, he's 14 months old. He's very unwell at the moment. Poor little sausage.

And this morning, we were just watching Tally. And that's what you do. Sean, when you've got a really upset sick kid, is you just let them watch as much TV as they want, honestly. It's the only way. It's the only way to get through. Do you think he's not quite old enough yet, but are you going to get him an iPad?

Be an iPad there? Oh, God. I've seen kids with iPads and I've always said I wouldn't. But I think there's a time and a place. You ought to have a. Yeah, you do. You do have to, like desperate times, desperate measures. But I have seen a family once out of a restaurant and none of them were talking to each.

And the two kids both had an iPad each at a restaurant. No, he can't do that. Nah, no, no, I thought that was no good. But we were watching Breakfast, TVNZ show. Oh, his favourite show? On Breakfast. He loves current affairs, doesn't he? Oh, you're one-year-old?

One year old loves catching up on the news. And he's watching TV and he goes, Nana. I'm kind of like half watching, half trying to guzzle as much coffee as I can. I'm like, what's he talking about Nana? And I look at the TV and there's Jenny May Coffin, one of the TVNZ breakfast hosts there doing her thing, presenting the news.

And Rocco, my boy is convinced this is his Nana. I kind of look similar to my partner's mum a little bit, maybe. Like, not con. But I'm like, I have to do it. I'm like, yes, it's Nana. You just committed to it. Whatever's going to make you happy. Yeah, Nana.

Nana's on the TV. But it did kind of unlock a memory for me. I mean, my mum told me this. I actually genuinely don't remember. But apparently when I was a kid, I was convinced that my dad, who had like the thickest slug of a mustache ever growing up, I was convinced that he was a news anchor at the time. A guy called, I think that was John Hawksby.

If you don't remember. I think that was his name. was a news read of way, but I'm born in 91. So whenever, whoever was presenting the news back then, I was like, that's my dad. He's a big old mustache, just like my dad. Wouldn't he be in the house at that time? No, because he was out

delivering sandwiches. Oh, so you'd leave and you'd go, he's on the TV. He's on the TV. I watched Dad. I watched Dad. Convinced it was Dad. And then my oldest sister believed that anyone who is on the TV can see into

your lounge. Like, I don't know whether that's just a trick that my mum told her or whether it was just something that she believed and just, like, wasn't corrected. But whenever she'd, like, finish having a bath or a shower at night, she'd get changed in the lounge bit behind the couch because she didn't want anyone on TV to watch. It's a good move.

And it just made me think of all the little things that you believed in as a kid. I thought that when I was really young, that women just became pregnant, like, randomly. And I was, like, so glad I'm not a girl. Because imagine if you just got pregnant one day and you had a baby. A stalk arrived.

That's what I kind of thought. I was like women just have a baby grow in their stomach. I was like, I wouldn't want that. That'd be scary. It would be scary. But it turns out there's a reason babies happen. You play a part. Yeah, it turns out I'm a part of that.

You are a part of it. Go me. A friend of mine was convinced that traffic lights growing up, there were fairies in traffic lights. And it was up to the fairies when they kind of turn the light green and when they turn the light orange and red and stuff, it was like, oh, like this whole kind of thing inside, like a slick business run.

by the fairies. All right, let's open this up. Oh, 800 the edge. Join the chat. What did you believe when you were a kid, or do you have a kid with you who still kind of believes some of these things? Yeah, what do they believe?

It's the cutest thing. What did you believe when you're... Did you think your parents were on TV as well? I think a lot of parents told us things to stop us doing things. It was just lies. Oh, yeah, whenever Mr. Whippy went past our house, mum's just like, oh, it's a singing bus.

Nothing to do with ice cream. I had the, um, the jingle means he's out of ice cream. Oh, you had that one. That was a good one. Your Ravos Head Harder. Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. So Steph was watching a child who one-year-old kid,

Rocco's favorite TV show with him today. Obviously loves current affairs, as most one-year-olds do. He was watching breakfast. Yeah, TV and said breakfast. It's up there. Ni-Nor, breakfast. One and the same. And he was going, bring back Paul Henry.

And he was loving it. And he was looking at Jenny Mae Coffin do anything. And he was going, Nana. It was very cute. Not his Nana. But maybe he looked similar. So what did you believe when you were a kid? got me thinking. I used to believe that

my dad presented the news when I was a baby. And thank you for the people that created me on 33443. Richard Long was his name. Very thick, Mo. Very thick. They look like your dad does, eh? Looked like my dad. Convinced it was my dad. And I love these messages coming through.

When I was a kid, someone says my mum told me that there was an elf who lived in the fridge and he would turn the light on and off when you open the fridge. I love these. Amber, I thought the world used to be black and white until I was about 11 because old photos were black and white. Oh, so the whole world was black and white.

Yeah. Very sweet. Let's go to the phones. Brooke's here from Christchurchal now 800 at the edge. Brooke, what did you believe when you were a little? Yeah, so I kind of thought that if you watched a TV program with an actor or character in it that had passed away, that you'd die. A lot of people who have texted that in actually. Someone else texted in Brooke that they thought the people who died in horror movies volunteered themselves.

I've fallen Paris tribute. For the movie. Oh, Brooke, that's so sweet. It's so sad. Kind of scary, though, as well. It's a new level of trauma to Bambi. That's a good point. Thank you, Brooke.

Tungi's here on 0800 the edge. What did you believe when you were a kid? So I believed when I was a kid, my mom had told me that if you eat the whole apple core, tips and all that trees will grow out your ear and your nose. And your nose. I had that one. That's traumatizing.

Eber seeds. Yeah. Thank you, Tungi. That's a classic. Tate from Auckland, what would you, what were you told as a kid? Well, it wasn't what I was told. It's what I thought.

So you know those concrete bollards, like on the Harbour Bridge that shift for peak hour traffic? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I used to think that tiny people would come out at night and push them. And I really wanted that job as a kid. And then I saw the truck, and I was ever stated.

Oh. See, like little, like elves just lived in them. Yeah. Waiting to move them. Yeah, and we'd just get out and push them. That's the cutest thing. Heartbreaking when you find out that it's just a truck. And the fact that you wanted that job, as a kid, mundane job seems so cool.

Yeah, yeah. No, it's true. And to Naya, what did you believe when you were a kid? You were a bit like me and you thought your dad was someone famous. Hiora, sorry, just correct, my name is Tenaia. Oh, hey Tenaia, sorry. For years, growing up, my mum made me believe that Tanya Umanga Umanga was my father because I'm Māori and I didn't know my dad back then.

Oh, wow. So, yeah, I thought I was really cool having an old blacks as a dad. I love that your mum was the one that started it too. She was like, no, he's definitely your father. Stana Oamonga, great rugby player. Terrible father. Terrible father. I'm like bloody useless. When he got the milk and never came back. When he got the milk and then pick up a rugby ball.

Also just heartbreaking when you find out that that's not your dad, you know? Like what an icon. Exactly. Oh, that's so sad. I love these messages. I've got so many checks coming through. Hey, up next on the show, I have joined a new gym. I'm a gym bro now. I went to my, it's a classes gym.

You go to classes? I went to one today for the first ever time. A, those instructors are so. Intense. Did you go to Zumba? No, it was obviously Yeah, it was Zumba. I wish. Zumba sounds so far. Do they still do Zumba? You'd love Zumba. Is it still a thing? Yeah, Sean, with all the old ladies. You'd love it. You'd know what I'd love? Aquarobics, I think.

You should go to Tai Chi with my mum. Anyway, we're getting off topic. I went to a gym class today and I absolutely messed up. Like, so bad. Really embarrassing. First time, definitely won't do this again. Your Arvoh's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. I recently joined a gym for the first time in a year because I was watching Love Island, Stephanie. They all look real ripped and I want to look hot. Okay.

Interesting choice of why you joined a gym. Watching Love Island. The first time I joined a gym seven years ago was also because of Love Island. Really? That show has impacted so many people in negative ways. It's done great things for me. Really? Terrible on my mental health.

Great for physical. Really. Just mind-dumbing that show, isn't it? But I'm obsessed and I can't get enough and I'm addicted to it. There are definitely moments where you're watching Love Island and you go, I am stupid an hour than I was an hour ago. Yeah, why do we do it? So I am in a new gym.

I'm going to Les Mills. I'm a Les Mills guy now. Oh, I used to donate to a charity called Les Mills. Yeah, just every week, just money would come out of my account. Bit of like an automatic payment to some guy called Les Mills, yeah. I'm thinking it could be going that way. I joined it because the classes seem like a really good idea. They do look fun.

I went today. It was my first class. I was very nervous. So it was an early morning class. I'll get it out of the way. How early morning is your... Is your idea of an early morning class, by the way? Because there are some gym goers out there who are listening

who are like, okay, if he says anything later than 7.30, it's not early. No, 8.30. Okay. It's early morning for me. My workday starts at about midday. An early morning gym session. Age 30. Oh, I'm up.

I'm up then. I'm out of the house. Okay. So I go to this class. I roll out of bed. I agree. Must be nice. Okay, don't have a child.

I don't even want to look after. I roll out of bed. I throw my workout gear on. I rush out the door. I go to leather. smells. I get there and I realize, oh, I forgot to put my, these classes, I didn't realize, you know, I didn't know how intense it would be, and I usually wear contact lenses when I work out, and I didn't really know what type of classes, and I don't want to be wearing my

glasses, they'll get sweaty, they'll fall off my face. So I took my glasses off, left them in the locker, and I was like, it's okay, I'll just stand up the front of the class so I can see what's going on. Does that happen? Like, do your glasses sweat off? I can't work out with glasses on. Glasses wearers will know. You're so cute. Oh, okay. Well, it's a disability, actually. This is very ablest of you. Hey, I gave you a compliment. So I usually wear contacts. Just took my glasses off, went to the classes.

I'll get a spot at the front. I didn't realize you've got to get there so early to get to the front. Because I can't see! And to Lil Lil, you go to the same gym. What are your thoughts on Sean wanting to dibs a spot on the front? God, no, you wouldn't catch me at the front? Right at the back, in the corner. Back corner.

That's a safe place to be. For your first time too? Sure! Chooka, go to the front. Oh, damn it, the front's taken. Oh, I can't see! This is the reason. I couldn't go to the front anyway,

so I get to this class, yes, little, little. But then there's so many people, so you just watch what they're doing in front of you? Well, this is what's happened. I get to this class, and I have to go to the back because I'm too late to get to the front. And good thing I did, because, yeah, the instructors are super intense, and they talk to people,

and they're like, they're real intense, eh? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's like, I've never been. met someone with that much enthusiasm. I think to me, it's Les Mills instructors and youth pastors are the only people who have that kind of enthusiasm

for life. They're working out for an hour and talking the whole time. I wish I could do that. But before even, when I walk in, they're like, how are you feeling? We're going to feel amazing this morning. How's everyone doing? I'm like, oh, God. I've just rolled out of bed. It's about 11.30 in the morning. Would you keep it down? It's just before midday. I'm naked. Just woke up.

Anyway, so the point is, I couldn't see anything. So she's like, keep calling up people for doing it wrong. And I don't know if she was calling me out or not, because I couldn't see her from where I was at the back of the thing. And she was like, no, you, and she was like pointing in my kind of direction was like, keep your back straight, keep your shoulders. And I was like, for the life of me, I do not know if she was talking to me or not. You're there squinting. So I was just adjusting, I was doing what Lily said, look at the person in front of you, but there's only so long you can do that

when it's a class full of women before you're just looking at someone's ass. Okay. Anyway, I had no idea what's going on. And by the way, we like, on behalf of all women, please call them a bottom, please. Sorry, looking at the tushy. No, bottom. Bottom. Yeah. Is that better?

A low low, yeah, bottom. You prefer bottom? Yeah. Oh, what's a tushy? I've never heard of that before. Tushy? Tushy? Keep it to bottom.

Yeah, bottom. Yeah. Look at that big, bulging bottoms. Well, they know when in rap songs goes, shake your bottom. Oh, well, they should. Your Arvos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. Steph, I need some help with something.

I know this isn't a bad thing, but... Do we have enough time to get through all of your issues? Okay, no we don't. So we're just going to tackle one of them right now. One of them, okay, well, one. It's an issue that's been caused by something that's happened in my life recently. My sister, God bless her, lovely young woman, is dating a guy. God bless her.

It's good, bless her soul. Lovely young woman. And any guy will be lucky to date her. That's why I say it, right? Okay. Lucky man to date my sister, which is a catch. Okay, yeah. No, I've met her.

This is clear you're talking about, eh? Yeah, well, let's not say her name. the radio. No, she's great. Really, really nice. She's dating a guy. She told me the other day about him and their relationship. Well, the first date, actually, she told me about.

And she said, I'm going on a date with this guy. And I was like, that guy is one of my friends. He's in my year from high school and he's a friend of mine. I was like, you're being very nonchalant. Like, you just subtly mentioned that. Oh, she knew. She was like, you're going on a date with this, that guy. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I was like, okay. Now, this isn't as weird as it would have been in high school, because she's about a four-year age gap once again. I'm 30 now. So that's not, that's been bridged. She's a 26-year-old woman, yeah. Yeah. Great.

And they're being on a few dates. Yeah. And. How good for you? What if this works out? What if this is like a blossoming romance? This is the real deal. They're the one for each other.

And then your mate marries into the family. I can't think of it that way. It's weird. Your friend. One of your really close friends could be your brother-in-law, Sean. Isn't this what dreams are made of? Yeah, that's kind of wholesome, I guess. So cool.

What if it doesn't work out, though? Oh. Yeah, I can't have my friend around anymore. Not that I bring my friend around. To your family. To my family's home, really. It's just a weird thing to get my head around. Yeah, but if it works out, dream.

Did you ever have that in high school growing up or any friends date other friends' siblings or got parents? I mean, I grow up on like a peninsula. It was very, uh, everyone just got with everyone. Once again, Ed Jarvos on Instagram, who makes the most money? Sean Stephen Harrison, go and give it a vote. Sorry, you were saying, you grew up on a peninsula. I grew up on a peninsula. And, like, around Devonport in Auckland.

Devonport. Devonport. Okay. Takapuna, you know, north shore. And everyone was kind of like, yeah, it was quite incestuous. So, I mean, I mean... You're saying that, like, you grew up in a town four hours from anyone. You grew up in, like, quite a popular suburb of Auckland.

Yeah, but it was too scary to go over the bridge or, like, hit it head up the coast. Like, the high-biscous coast, boys, like, they were no good. So you just kind of stuck with your own And if that was your friend's older brother Then yeah So be it's very common I think And I think it would actually be a dream come true If your best friend

I'm just like imagining my best friend If I had a brother Got with each other And then she was like my sister and all forever I just think that's such a dream situation For you to be in Sean Yeah and then you have to think about her getting with your brother No but you don't think about people getting with each other

Yeah you don't You can No but you could Yeah but why would you ever Sean think about your It's hard because sometimes your brain wanders. Yeah, but that's the same with any of your friends. Yeah. Why am I talking about this on the radio?

Oh, 800 the edge, make me feel better. I want to know, has this happened to you? Have you kept it in the family? Yeah. Have you got with one of your mate's siblings? Yeah. Have you Game of Thrones that and joined your houses? Wow.

I reckon there'd be heaps of stories out there. And I reckon, no mess. All just dream situations. Oh, actually. Let's get some messy ones as well. If it went badly. How did that work? Maybe you ended up with your mate's sibling, did it in badly and you don't talk to your friend anymore?

Has it gone well? Give me advice. What happens? That'd be a shame. Your Arvos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. I'm living in life trouble. And I know it shouldn't be.

Steph, you've made a good point. But my younger sister, God bless her. God bless her. God bless her. Lovely woman. And anyone will be lucky to date her, you know. Date into our family. Great family.

Yeah, you guys are. Great family. and you guys live very close to Papamoor Beach so great family to marry into I must say. That but also location location location Exactly You know what I mean

But she's dating now recently I can't even say they're dating We've been on a couple dates With a close friend of mine from high school Yeah for some reason you're concerned about this I think it's weird It's not that weird Sean In fact if this is to work out

Then I think it's a great thing To have one of your close friends like Mary, into the family. This is what dreams are made of. In fact, we've opened up the phone lines on 0800 The Edge and Anonymous has called through. When you were younger, your brother wanted you to date his friends. Tell us more. Yes, so we're quite a tight-knit group of friends between me and a couple of my brothers. And they preferred me if I dated their friends because they knew who I was left, where I would be on the weekends. People were hanging.

and out with how I was being treated. And obviously, if they broke my heart, they knew who to go in, give a punch or two-to. Right. But, yeah, they preferred it, instead of me dating strangers. It's an interesting, it's kind of what Steph's saying. It's like, you, better the evil you know? You know, like, they're going to be dating someone. They can date my, no, I've got no problem with her.

It's like a full protective older brother vibes. That sounds quite protective. That's great. All right, Cushler, it worked out for you. You ended up marrying her? Oh, sorry. Hi, Kushla. You're okay?

Hi. Hi. No, I'm okay. Who'd you marry? I married one of my brother's best friends. Okay, so you've done it. The best friend. Now, what happened, Kushla, because I can go either way.

Either you're now just tight-knit trio and you'll hang out together, or did it ruin their relationship? Well, this was years ago. It was years ago. No, they became really good friends again, like, because of years after high school. and they became close. I married him and we were amazing, happy family.

There you go, and how cool for like a couple of lads, couple of best mates being now kind of family, or the family reunions and Christmases, and they're always together. Sean, this could be a dream. It could be an absolute dream. It didn't start off that way. Oh, gosh, love, what happened to end badly?

Well, I know. No, it's. I started off. I remember years ago we were in a club. I hooked up with him and he disappeared because he said, oh my God, that's Sean's sister, little sister. I can't do there. I can't go there. Years later, we hooked up again and got married and had kids. Unfortunately, my husband passed away four years ago. We would have been happily, still happily married if that hadn't happened. But Christmas's were so fun. There you go. Your brother's called Sean as well. It's a sign.

Sorry, no, so my brother was Sean, Simon was my husband. Oh, but Sean, I'm Sean. Yeah, you're Sean. Oh, yeah, well, there you go. My brother was named Sean. Oh, my God, it's in the universe, Sean. My sister's not called Kushal, sorry, aren't it. Oh, it's close.

Start, same letter, sounding. Okay, I feel better about it now. I'm kind of okay with it. Yeah, I think you should be fine with it. It's going to be amazing. Okay. everybody because we have an opening date-ish for New Zealand's first ever IKEA store.

This is big news. IKEA, now that's like the, they make flat pack furniture, right? And it's quite cheap. And it's quite good. It's good. It's like, it's Scandinavian owned and operated and stuff. And they've just got the greatest taste in the world when it comes to interior design and fashion and furniture.

So it's not cheap. So I think the price point, it's not. Not Kmart. It's expensive expensive, but it's more expensive than Kmart. But it's just what this country's missing. It's huge overseas. You see TikTok's all the time of like, this is an IKEA shelf that I transported from this place to this place. And I joshed it up and I did this.

And we don't have an IKEA, Sean. And New Zealand's about to get one. And before I do the big reveal, a quick story, IKEA story, I was in a lovely country by the name of Hungary. Yeah. Do you heard of it? No. Oh yeah, no, I've heard of it. So we're Budapest.

Hey, you had the song ready. Yeah, yeah, you used to mention Budapest up here, so I was like, I've got a song for it. And there is an IKEA everywhere overseas. And so as we were traveling through Europe and we arrived in Budapest, we were like, oh, we've got like one full day here before. We were there for Zig-Et, which is this big kind of music festival. And we're like, okay, this is one day that we've got free after the festival. Do we go to the Bards, very famous in Budapest? It's like picture perfect.

You take your photo. It's where everyone goes. And what a great way to unwind after a music festival as well. You're tired. It's like the beautiful pools. Amazing. Beautiful public pools, but not gross. Like stunning.

Do we go there? Or do we take the train for like an hour to the kind of outskirts of the city and go to IKEA for the first time in our life? Don't tell me that's what you did. We went to IKEA. We can never travel together. If you're in Budapest, you took an hour train out of the city to look at a furniture store when you have no intention of buying furniture because you're traveling for how many months you're traveling for.

It's just nice to walk through. How long did you spend there? Hours. You literally trained out there to spend hours in a furniture store with no intention to buy anything. That's crazy. And they had a cafeteria there, so we did have lunch. It's insane. I walked away with a potato mintser to make yokee.

Oh, well, that was worth it. So they do like little bits and pieces like that as well. Oh my God, I can't wait. And if you're like me and you cannot wait to step foot inside of an IKEA that you'd give up a beautiful experience that going to the Budapest Bards to experience it, before Christmas. IKEA is likely to open around the Christmas trading period

at the end of this year. It's going to be right by Sylvia Park in Auckland. So there you go. Book your flights, guys. Oh wait, sorry. So when I asked earlier if it would be here before Christmas, that just ruined it. That's the only info you have is just before Christmas.

Literally before Christmas. You're going to have a date. Oh, so it was basically Christmas. But too late to buy someone a gift from there. Yeah. Okay. Your avos head harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. Now, we used to run a segment on the show called Degrees of Separation,

where we'd throw out a New New Zealand celebrity every week, and you tell us any interaction you've had with that person. It worked so well with one New Zealand celebrity that we've changed the entire bit. We're now on week eight of... Stan Walker! Degrees of Stan Walker is the game. And we've never failed to get stories. Oh, I love this segment because, yeah, you're right, Sean.

Everyone kind of has a loose tie-in to Stan Walker at some point in your life. You could walk past him in a dairy. You could know someone who knows someone who knows someone who worked at his wedding. Like, it's that. Those stories are the ones that we want here. The most ludicrous tie-in to Stan Walker, the better. Oh, 800 the edge, if you've got a Stan Walker yarn. We've got a double pass to our must-see movie, Jurassic World.

Rebirth, which comes out tomorrow. Just to give you a heads up of what we're kind of looking for, these are some past winners. My older sister's friend, her dad, owned the farm, which was one of the filming locations for Stan Walker's film, Mount Zion. So there you go. That's one.

That's a great example. Amazing degree of separation. Here's another one. So I organised a photo shoot where I basically talked to everyone and organized all the people on the photo shoot, but I actually never went on the photo shoot and never met Stan Walker but it was a shoot for one of his magazine covers.

So these are the kind of stories. Brilliant. You don't have to actually have met him. No, we don't want you to have met him, really. No, not really. We want you to have brushed past him in a shopping mall. Like, that's the story that we want. Yeah, you ran into him in a Maccas

and you were surprised that he ordered a filet of fish. Yeah, anything, any kind of terrible Stan Walker story. This is the Sigma's bad. Is this the way it doesn't work? There's no calls yet so far. believe, oh, 800 the Edge, a double pass. It's going to happen eventually, Sean. We will run out of New Zealanders who have seen Stan Walker in the wild.

It's going to happen. Your Arvo's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. What we want right now is the most crazy connection that you have to the legendary New Zealander, Stan Walker. Stamwork! Degrees of Stan Walker is the bit. Now, these can be any stories. We'll deem which one's the best degree of separation. A double pass to our edge must-see movie.

Jurassic World Rebirth, up for grabs. And by best, Sean, means probably worse, to be honest. We don't want a story of like, oh, Stan Walker's my best friend and I know I'm really, really, really, really well, and I was best man at his wedding. Nah, we want. One time I walked past him at the warehouse

and he was wearing a nice top and I said, hello, and he looked at me and he said, hi. Someone actually called with a story similar once, Steph, where they said one of his friends was caught, like got beat on the way out of the warehouse to try to steal something. They were working security, and one of his mates accidentally was holding a top. Yeah.

It's the kind of story we're after. Yeah, exactly. All right, let's go to the phones. I'm so excited about this. Let's go to Wellie first to you. Brooke on 0800 The Edge. What is your Stan Walker story? Hello.

Okay, so I used to live and work in Raronga and I was over there just bopping away one night in a club. And I bumped into someone and I was like, oh, like rude. And it was Stan Walker. And I was like, oh. And then I went all fan girl. And then I sort of like schmoozed myself into their circle. and we sort of like bop for a while

not like me and Stan, just like me in the circle you know, and then I just smooged my way out and I was like whoa, claim to fame. That's exciting. That's a good story. I was so excited. That is cool. You're in Raro's beautiful. Rarrow, my God, dream and then you're like mixing and mingling. What?

I actually won a trip with the edge to Raro as well. Oh, the story he's better. And I went with JJ, Dom and Randall when his name was Randall. That's the way. Yeah, Clint now. Is that where you met Stan Walker?

Yeah. No, that was another. I moved back after that. Oh, okay. Wow, you're going to Rara with all the celebrities, though. This is amazing. Okay, great start, Brock.

We do have to get to the other callers though, but you are in the running at the moment. Jane on 0800 the Edge. What is your Stan Walker story? We're trying to find our favourite. Okay. So, me and my two cousins flew up from Gore to Auckland

to go to the Beyonce concert. and Stan Walker opened he was awesome and in Gore you just say hello to everybody and anyway Stan Walker was at this bar and my cousin said I'm just going to go up and say hi so she was sort of walking up casual waiting a little bit behind

and she tapped him on the shoulder and he turned around and he said oh no sorry I'm too busy and my cousin Tender dropped her wee lip walk back I said hey We're not in gore. We're not in gore now. But anyway, it was pretty close. So in the flesh, Sam Walker.

Yeah, that's pretty exciting. That's really good. Saw him at a pub. Got rejected. Got rejected. Yeah. He probably had a lot of people kind of. That's tough.

To be honest, we've done the segment for a good couple of months now, and that's not the first time we've heard. Someone went to say hi, and he was like, leave me alone. To be honest, I would say overall great stories other than that. Yeah, yeah. Does seem like a lovely guy. He does. I don't know.

but he does seem, all the stories are pretty positive. Okay, we need to have one more contestant, Haley's here on 0800 the Edge. What is your Stan Walker story, and we're going to find our favourite? All right. Well, I used to live in Rarishonga, and I used to work at a daycare, and we had a little girl who was there, and her mum was obviously quite a high-flyer because she dated Kherbala, who was a all black.

Okay. And obviously it wasn't worth Caballo anymore because was rumoured to be dating Stan Walker. So I looked after a little girl whose mum was supposedly dating him. And this is what the segment's for. So you don't even know. Yeah, that's what I thought. You don't even know, really.

So you looked after the daughter of a woman who might have dated her. It might not have, but might have dated Sam Walker. That's right. Yeah, it was rumoured to. We're giving it to you. Congratulations, Yvonne. That is in the integrity of the game. You've nailed it, Haley. What a yard.

Your avos head harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. Hey, Steph, you and I are both kind of obsessed at the moment with Love Island. It's got me again. I told myself, Steph, don't watch another season of Love Island. It's the biggest waste of time. There's like 50 episodes. All the episodes are the same. It's just hot people are just being like, do you like me?

you, okay, and then goes and they kiss everyone else and they're like, oh no, they don't like me anymore. Like, it's just mind-numbing, but it's so addictive. And if you fall off, it's a bit of a mountain to climb to get back onto it. Ah, TikTok videos will suss you out. That's true. I will say this Love Island season, if you're not watching it, it's curing my winter blues.

It's very good. It's pretty good. A lot of drama this season. One thing that I'm not loving is how people on the show kiss each other. Now, this has been my big beef with Love Island since I started watching it. The sound that the kissing, makes is blood boiling. Oh no.

It's blood boiling. It's so yuck. It's not the sound for me. It's the fact that they all kiss, they leave with their tongue. When you kiss someone you're meant to leave, honestly, if you're kissing, go lips first, and then maybe a bit of tongue if you're going to like, they leave with their

tongue, they go, oh, and this couple, Megan Dejean, who kissed on last night's episode, hashtag no spoilers, um, they look like they'd been on a desert island without food. for 10 days and she was trying to get some sustenance out of him. She looked like a dementor from Harry Potter trying to suck the soul out of the guy. She was like,

put the horned up potty's Sean. No one kisses like that. Gives a normal cast. Yeah, I have thought the same thing. Like, for me a kiss is like, you lean in. Okay, really visualize this with me, okay? Yeah, come out, practice it. Okay, no, well, you stayed that side of the room. But, visualise it. Okay, your eyes

are closed, you're leaning in. Yeah. And then you go lips, lips, lips, minimum three lips, and then you can start inserting the tongue. I agree. You've got lip, lip, lip, lip, tongue. Okay, there's no tongue first. That's obscene. One of the girls puts her tongue up before, should they make contact?

No, like a snake. Anyway, it makes me want to bring back. My first kiss went a little like this. 0,800 the edge, worst first kiss stories. Oh yeah, we've done this before, and it's always a good time. Like someone, awful story. Someone last time we did this,

watch the notebook and everyone's normally like 1112 13 when they have their first kisses or whatever and um and well not normally but like that's the callers that we've had before and after watching the notebook they went outside because it was raining and they wanted to reenact it and then she got such a fright by the slimyness of his tongue that she like yelled and then almost bit his tongue off perfect oh my god have you seen the text line page texts in that she kissed the guy and got hit by a car right after Your Avos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. That was our first kiss with you, Paige.

But tell us about your first kiss and what went wrong. So I was probably about 10 or 11 years old. I was at primary school. And we took the Burnham bus to home every day. And I had been dead on the bus to kiss a boy in my class. And we got off the bus. I hopped in my mum's car. car and watched him cross the road and he was hit by a car.

Wait, so you did kiss him and then he got hit by a car or you didn't kiss him and he got hit by a car? I did kiss him and then he was hit by a car. He was just like away, just days, just like, oh my God, that kiss with Paige was everything I've always imagined it to be. And then boom! Was he okay? He was okay. He broke both of his legs. Oh! Oh, my gosh. Oh my God, I thought it was just a little knock. This is so terrifying.

He was fully hit by car and it was really sad because it was his mum's birthday and she was crossing the road to meet him and then watched it all unfold. Oh no. This is the single craziest thing I've ever heard in one entire life. How long did it take you before you trusted yourself to kiss another man without injuring him in a motor vehicle accident? Oh, probably a way file. Paige. This is an unbelievable yarn.

Can we put a message out there through our magical radio station right now? And what was his name? Sean. Oh, another Sean. Sean, are you listening right now? Or do you know a Sean who got knocked over by a car broke both of his legs after kissing Paige at the back of a bus? Please get in touch because we need to talk to you. And Paige, are you single?

No, I am not. Okay, all right. Well, maybe don't call that. I was going to say maybe imagine. What could have been? Getting back to the Gila page after all these years. Oh, no. Wow.

Did you visit him at hospital? No, I think he came in a couple of months after he had been, like, in hospital, and we got to see his past and sign him and stuff. Wow. Did he kiss him again? No. Oh, my God. You're like, nah, the cast were returned.

off. Oh, stick-paked. Yeah, I think it was a bit of like a curse, honestly. Oh, that's so crazy. Got the act when you got hit by a car. Oh, babe. What a loser. Your Ravos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison.

The Edge. And I'm on a journey, New Zealand, a journey to provide you with a fact that's so good that you'll share it with everyone on your meet. It's a five-star fact. Sean's five-star fact. I've been unsuccessful in roughly four months of attempts. I've come close. Yesterday, I was the closest in the vein.

We're up to... Sure, we're up to month, seven. Okay. I'm underplaying it. I'm underplaying it. All right, as you're judging committee, No Harrison on the show today, by the way. But we do have Interloom-Loo and producer Sam on board.

Where are your judges? And we're looking for these very simple, very unhash criteria, Sean. No, it started as originality, shareability and performance, which were good criteria. And now you guys keep adding criteria every week. We're looking for... a fact that doesn't involve wars, no numbers,

they're hard to remember. No scientific words. Nothing hard for us, dumb-dums. No off the guys. Sorry, I didn't mean if you guys typical dumb-dye. I just mean, like, in general, it's hard to retain scientific words. Judge Chemistry is one of the things, so this is not a great start for me. It's called dumb. Thanks for pointing that out.

Sorry. Good rhythm, relatability, connection, good passion, good mana, appropriate shock factor, and hey, if you've got a sound effect or two, then that would be Just dandy. I'm confident today, guys. I saw this on my TikTok feed, and I thought this is incredible.

Today's five-star fact is Billy Ray Cyrus sung the Scooby-Doo theme song. Billy Ray, Milie Cyrus is dead. Do you know what, Sean? This is a terrible day to decide to do a Scooby-Doo fact. Why? It's Harrison's favourite ever cartoon.

Is it? Yeah. Not even lying. It's his favourite cartoon ever Scooby Doe He's going to be heartbroken One that he's missed this too That he will probably just give you a five-star fact

Had he been here Oh my God Just having Scooby-Doo and the fact too Not an idiot Yeah you're an idiot You're the Dub-Dub Not us I can still get your five stars though

From you three I think it's a good fact All right produces Sam So everyone knows The guy everyone knows No one knew it I'm going to give it a I'm going to give it a 3.5 Sean

Oh come on All right that's fair enough Why? What is it lacking? It's not really helpful for life. It doesn't, I don't know, it's lacking substance. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Billy Ray's not that, like, who really cares about Billy Ray Cyrus, to be honest. And to Lulu?

You heard me at Miley Cyrus. Oh, you like it? I kind of like it. Yeah, it's a good fact. And it's good because I didn't even know that, except I don't really watch Scooby-Doo. And none of my friends do. And no when I'm around. So the shareability, I'll pay it from Harrison, but he would have already probably known that.

Shareability I'll give it a four I'll give you that Okay, Steph Yeah, three Fine, I'll be back with a five staff act tomorrow Your Avos head harder With Sean, Steph and Harrison

The Edge I got a mall massage the other day, Steph When was the last time you had a mall massage? Never You've never been at the mall And been like seeing those signs And it's like 20 minutes Back and shoulder 20 bucks

I've seen the signs I've walked past the signs I've never actually walked into one of those places. Are they good? I've always just thought, mm-hmm, no. You know what I mean? Also, malls...

I've thought to myself, I think you're after a different kind of massage. They're not for those. Yeah, not today. Not at a mall. However, when I am at a mall, I'm in and out. I'm in and out of a mall.

I'm there for a purpose. I'm not dilly-dallying. Sean by spending 20 minutes with a stranger touching me. It's a weird thing to do, I'll admit. And I don't do it very often, but I went recently, my fiancé Jeannie broke her phone.

She needed to go to the phone store. And she was taking a long time. She bought a new phone. Did she drop it into the toilet? No. She actually is crazy how she did it. Her office buildings three floors up internally and they've got like barriers

that overlook this like courtyard. And she was like saying goodbye to someone and dropped it out of her hands. It dropped out of three floors and it shattered. Oh my gosh. So she had to buy a new one. And it was taking so, like, She was getting it set up and everything.

She had to change phone plans. How annoying. The lady was like, this will take 20 minutes. I was like, oh, I'm going to go for a walk. I was sitting on the, sorry. Sean's chugging up just thinking about how the phone really had an unfortunate demise. It's really loved that phone. Yeah.

I've seen some things. I saw a sign that was like more, it was like a head and, neck and shoulders massage, 20 minutes, $20 is what it said. I'm like, oh, I've got 20 minutes. I've got $20. Great, I'll do this. So I walk in there. I'm thinking they'll put me down on. on a table and do a proper massage.

They don't. She just kind of sits me up, right? She's like, sit in this seat here, and it's a seat with no back. I hate sitting on a, it was like a stool. I basically sitting on a stool. And then she starts going to town on my shoulders really hard. And instantly, I was like, I hate this.

You'll need a massage from the massage. Yeah, so she's just violently going to my shoulders. I'm not comfortable because I'm like trying to sit up right. I look at the clock, I'm like, God, we're 30 seconds in. I've got 20 minutes of this. There's a guy next to me who is getting a foot massage. He's reclined. He's loving it and he's getting his feet down.

He's having a great time. Can you swap? Can you be like, actually, I'm on what he's having. I was like, oh, that looks lovely. And I'm just like, she's going at it. And she's throwing her elbows in there. I'm like, ow, this hurts. Ow!

Ow! I didn't say that, obviously. I was embarrassed. And the guy next to me had an ankle bracelet on one of those ones with lights on it. And I was trying to be tough in front of her. Oh, okay. So I was like, and I was literally watching it countdown. Like I was like waiting to finish my shift.

I was like, I could not wait for this massage to end. And I got to 10 minutes. and I was so sore and I hated it so much. I was like, I'm not doing it. So I did what a lot of people do on a first date that they hate and I pretended to take a phone call. And I got my phone and said, hello, hello? Sorry, I've really got to take this.

And I just popped outside. I stood outside for nine minutes until my massage time was over. I came back and said, sorry I had to take that. I'll just pay for the rest of it. I don't have time to finish it. It's so sorry, that was so lovely. It paid it up left.

Why, as humans, do we not tell the mistake? Suz, when they're not doing it well. Why do we do that? We're paying for it. And she'd even go, is the pressure right? I go, that's that one, actually. Could it be better? Your Arvo's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison.

You may have seen the news story overnight that a new spider species has made its way to Al Tierra, the noble false widow spider, which is actually quite scary because people have ended up in hospital getting bad by this thing. Not what we want. Do not want it at all. So I've got your top three today. The top three, invasive

species that I think we should bring to New Zealand. It's that time of the day. The time to get your news. Brought to you by... A TikTok video of AI cutting random things in half that I'll watch every single time without fail. Oh my God, why? The glass fruit? The glass fruit. I watched one the other day

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It's the edge top three. So this new spider is in New Zealand. I thought we do not want that. Bit scary, but these are the top three species that I would like to introduce to New Zealand. Right, number one, everyone thinks we're Australia anyway. Can we at least take their cute animals? I'm talking quasas, kangaroos, wombats.

Don't want the tazzy devils, no snakes. But we'll take the cute ones. Give us the quasas. Why can't I have a koala? No, because we've got no eucalyptus trees really here, Sean. Plant some. Yeah, no, the koalas, they need the eucalyptus. What, I think platypus

They'd do well in Lake Topo, somewhere like that And bring a bit of extra Extra something Yeah, no, platypus would be a good idea Little platypussies is what I call the plural Two Oh, rude Two

Apologies, but I didn't mean to cut you off Number two, invasive species I think we should introduce into New Zealand Squirrels, how cute are squirrels? Oh, you forget squirrels exist And then you go overseas And then they're everywhere and none of the locals in whatever city you're in gives like F about them

because they're just squirrels to them. But to us, it's like one time I walked past there's this area in Auckland called Western Springs, which is like a big kind of lake pond situation. And just birds everywhere. You've got your geese, your swans, your ducks, blah, blah, blah. And to us, they're nothing. They're just birds.

But then to tourists, you see, like, pulling over and, like, taking photos, and they can't believe. they're seeing a goose in real life. It's like us with squirrels. You're there taking photos. Oh my God, they're so cute. They're like holding a nut and they've got the tail, just like they do in the books.

They store them. They take nuts and store them up for winter. It's so cute. We need squirrels. We actually, no, Sean, because they'd ruin the bird species. Well, birds are dying out anyway. Let's have squirrels.

Three. And the third invasive species I'd like to introduce to New Zealand after we had a new spider, the false widow make its way over here this week. Velociraptors, hear me out. Now I know that they don't exist right now but if we were to reanimate dinosaurs

from fossils just like the movie Jurassic Park New Zealand would be the best place to put them in my opinion because we don't share borders with any other country and all of those movies it does go wrong eventually so it's nice to know that when we do that we can just kind of maybe we keep it to Stuart Island

Yeah Actually yeah I think that's a better idea Stuart Island dinosaurs No but the new Jurassic World franchise comes out tomorrow for school holidays and if that's anything to learn something by, they'll get out eventually.

Even just on one island it won't work, Sean. At least we have Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard running around in high heels the whole time, which is very realistic. Didn't take her shoes off, Sean? Not once in the Jurassic World movies has Bryce Dallas Howard taken her high heels, which about this tall off.

Yeah. And that pencil skirt stays very well pressed. Stupid. Anyway. It's the Edge Top Three. Your Avos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. Right, what I wanted to talk about here is in apples, but it's salmon.

Now, in America, and it ought to only happen in America, because America's a wild place. America. But lab-grown fish, salmon, to be exact, is now sold at a Portland restaurant. It's Haitian food, which I've never actually had before. Haitian? Haitian? from Haiti, Haiti. Cubs of salmon, that's not actually salmon,

boneless, scaleless, lab-grown salmon, kind of like, I'll show you a photo, it looks exactly like salmon. Oh, that looks legit. Are you sure that's it? That's sushi-me. It looks exactly like raw salmon that you'd find in sushi. But its lab-grown salmon is now on sale.

So they did this first with beef, right? And they made, like, lab-grown meat, and then they've done it with diamonds, they can recreate diamonds. And the idea is, I guess, it's quite a cool thing. Being able to grow it in a lab, it means less animals get harmed. It means eventually are maybe going to solve food crises. It would be cool if that's what it eventually does.

But at the moment, it just absolutely freaks me out. I could never eat that. You're joking me? It comes from cells grown in tanks at a former microbrewery. So it's like leftover alcohol bits in San Francisco. and in late May became the first cell cultured seafood

to receive safety approval from the US Drug and Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, which you've probably all heard of. No, there needs to be a line. It's probably okay, but I don't want to, I'll give it a few years

because, you know, these things happen and everyone was, like, promoting smoking. They're like, it's really good. And then in, like, the 70s, everyone's actually smoking's really bad for you. Like, we might learn that this lab grown meat's, like, horrible for you.

What if this is the future, though? What if eventually, with global warming the way it's going. I don't want to get too dark on a Wednesday night. But maybe this is the future. Lab-grown chicken, they already do that. Red meat? I want to talk to a vegan on the ethics of eating lab-grown meat.

Would Meg, from the breakfast show, as a vegetarian, eat a lab-grown steak? Well, technically, it's not an animal. It was never alive, so I wouldn't see that there's a problem with it. It just tastes like it. Yeah. So surely it'd be fine. Surely.

If you're a vegan, texting 3-3-4-3, but that's interesting. What's the next thing they're going to make? Lab grown About to say babies That's already a thing Do they test tube babies? Of course They've got no belly buttons, eh?

No, that's not true Yeah? No Because they don't come out They don't have a belly button They're in fever No, they do come out Oh, you made it

And then they come in and then they get put in the womb Yes I need to learn how babies are made Ah wow Your Avos Head Harder With Sean, Steph and Harrison The Edge Hey hope you enjoyed the podcast

And if you're sticking around To the outro to hear Steph's great idea for a unique thing that no one's ever done before. She still can't think of it. I still can't think of it, you guys. A whole podcast, we listen to that as well. We listen with you.

Just can't think of it, nothing. I remember I was outwalking my dog and my baby this morning, and I remember vividly what street I was on. Because literally this was my frame of mind. I was like, far out, it's hard to do a podcast these days because everyone's got one. And then I was like, what else could I do in life? And then it came to me, like an epiphany from God.

but I can't remember what it was but I remember what street I was on walking when I thought of it. Can you imagine if this happened to Thomas Edison and I'm not going to say this is on the same level of inventing the light bulb but what if Thomas Edison didn't write it down? You've got to write these things down there.

You really do. Damn it! I was like, I will never forget this because it's so good. It's such a great invention. But it wasn't an invention. It was just a redesign. It was a redesign of something that like something ugly

that I'm going to make cute. Was it a tissue box? Okay. It was something like that. It's nothing to do with podcasting. No, nothing to do with anything. It was sewing, weirdly. It was sewing something that's ugly,

but I'm going to make cute versions of them and I'll sell a few of them. It's not going to make me mega bucks, but it's going to be a good project. But I just can't remember what it is. Is it tissue boxes? No, that's not. No, crocheted tissue boxes have existed.

No, yeah, they already are the thing. Hey, I've got my 30th birthday this weekend. Oh, yes. Doing a little shindig in Auckland. Do you know what's so crazy about? I haven't talked to you. I've ceded this idea with you, but not mentioned it on here. My girlfriend, who I just got, my fiancé, who I just got engaged to, isn't coming to my 30th,

nor are any of her siblings, nor are any of my siblings. It's just going to be like a work party. Oh, why? Where is she going? My fiancé, we got back from Bali, I proposed to her. Three days later, she's going off to Amsterdam with her mum and her sisters. And it's the craziest turn of events because her brother. brother works on super yachts overseas and their yacht is currently, he's done it for like four

years and his yacht is currently at like a shipyard, it just got redone and this billionaire who owns the boat is so proud of it that he wants to fly all of his staff's family over from all over the world to look at the boat at the shipyard. Whoa. So he's got about 16 staff. He's flying all of their immediate family. So Jeannie's brother has five family members. He's flying them all business class.

No. From New Zealand to Amsterdam. It takes 24 hours... Gene is flying business to Europe? Business. Oh my God, the dream. But it's taking two 10-hour flights to get to Europe. They are there for two days and then they fly business back.

They're literally flying 48 hours, being there for 40 hours. Who is this guy? How is he a billionaire? His name's Gabe something. He's like some tech developer. I'm looking at it right now. Gabe. Gabe, billion.

Short for probably Gabriel. Gabe Newell, I think. I've just looked on up. He's like a game developer. Wow. He's about video games. and he's worth $10 billion. Anyway, so he owns this yacht, and he's flying them all over.

So it's going to cost him. Like, billionaires, this is why I hate billionaires, right? He is spending probably $150,000 to fly all of these people from all over the world to say, look at what I did with my money. Wow. All his staff could use that so much. But if you had that much money... Give some away!

No, but he probably does do that. He probably does. If you had that much money, the best thing that you could do with that money is enrich... other people's lives and give them really fun experiences. And what better than to have your staff family turn up and to like be in Europe for a few days? Like actually, what he's doing is fucking cool. So here's the crazy thing about it.

Wow. I was like, can I go? And her brother said, only immediate family or married partners. I proposed to her two days later. You're like, oh, well, eventually. Can I go? If I was married, if it was two years down on, I get to go.

Oh my God. That's so cool that they're flying business. That's outrageous. Do you know there wasn't, there's another... It would be cool if she was at my 30th, though, I. That would, nah. I would give up with anyone's, anything to fly business to Europe. Gabriel, there's another American billionaire.

I'm just looking them all up. And his middle name's A-R-C-E. How would you pronounce that? A-R-C-E? Yeah. Well, you'd say ass, wouldn't you? His middle name's literally ass. I bet he goes R-K.

It's like one of those ones who's named Cockburn, and they go Coburn. When has CK ever been a soft sound? Ars. His name's Gabriel Ars Hammond. Hammond. Gabriel Ars Hammond. That's so good. Oh, wow. I really wish I was a billionaire. I probably will be if I'd remembered my idea. Your Avos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge.

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